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PRELIMINARY ANALYSIS OF RESTING-STATE CORRELATIONS fMRI – IPASE (Dr. Álvaro Planchuelo; video: https://youtu.be/VTswA__Nu_0) Preliminarily, the relationship between functional connectivity measured from resting functional magnetic resonance imaging (rs-fMRI) and anomalous experiences of the self is proposed. The starting hypothesis is that increased resting functional activity (inhibition deficit) in patients with schizophrenia is linked to increased abnormal…

You can watch the video of the full session on our YouTube channel at this link. In our last session, Inés Fdez Linsenbarth, predoctoral researcher at SUCEDE, briefly explains what her research project on brain magnetic stimulation (BMS) consists of. She summarizes it as follows: One of the most important SUCEDE’s research findings is that…

Vicent Llorca, visiting psychiatrist in the SUCEDE group, today reviews the following scientific article: “Abnormal ERPs and Brain Dynamics Mediate Basic Self Disturbance in Schizophrenia: A Review of EEG and MEG Studies” (Hamilton and Northoff, 2021). You can watch the video here (in Spanish). Alterations of the self are characteristic phenomena of schizophrenia and have…

STATE OF THE ART AND PROPOSED INTEGRATION OF RESTING FMRI DATA WITH OTHER MODALITIES (BY ÁLVARO PLANCHUELO) Watch the session on our YouTube channel (in Spanish). Direct comparison of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) data between groups of patients with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder and healthy controls has been performed in multiple studies in the…

Literature review: Overcoming Rest–Task Divide—Abnormal Temporospatial Dynamics and Its Cognition in Schizophrenia (Northoff & Gomez-Pilar, 2020) Two of the most relevant findings in schizophrenia during the performance of an oddball paradigm are abnormal resting activity and reduced activity during task performance. These alterations are studied independently in numerous papers, but current evidence regarding the relationship…

AUDITORY EVOKED POTENTIALS, CONSEQUENT DISCHARGE AND ANOMALOUS EXPERIENCES OF THE SELF. Communication between two neural groups depends on the coherence or synchrony of neural activity between them (Fries, 2005). Ford et al. (2002) found that during speech generation, in healthy people, there was greater coherence between frontal and temporal regions in all frequency bands compared…

LITERATURE REVIEW. Watch it on Youtube here. Presented by Dr. Óscar Martín from Hospital Clínico Universitario de Valladolid. We analyzed the article “Understanding Cortical Dysfunction in Schizophrenia With TMS/EEG ” (Vittala A. et al,Front Neurosci. 2020 May). The combination of Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation and Electroencephalogram ( TMS-EEG) offers a unique opportunity to directly test a…

LITERATURE REVIEW. Watch it on YouTube here. Professor Vicente Molina performs the review of the following article: Treatment response after 6 and 26 weeks is related to baseline glutamate and GABA levels in antipsychotic-naïve patients with psychosis (Bojesen et al, 2019, Psychological Medicine) In this article, the authors investigate the possibility of predicting response to…

SCIENTIFIC PAPER REVIEW: Neuroimaging Heterogeneity in Psychosis: Neurobiological Underpinnings and Opportunities for Prognostic and Therapeutic Innovation (Voineskos et al., 2019) Below, Dr. Antonio Arjona, postdoctoral researcher, presents a summary of his scientific review. Currently, one of the main objectives of researchers in relation to the diagnosis of mental disorders is to identify reliable biomarkers. The…

ANOMALOUS EXPERIENCES OF THE SELF AND CONSEQUENT DISCHARGE IN SCHIZOPHRENIA. STATUS OF OUR PROJECT BY ROSA BEÑO (PHD CANDIDATE). Corollary discharge (CD) has been studied in several sensory-perceptual phenomena. This is a mechanism used to distinguish self-generated perceptions from those coming from external sources, allowing us to label the sensations that come from acts generated…